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- Classroom Resources | Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
Alphabet Organizer
Students use this online tool to create an alphabet chart or pages for an alphabet book. - Classroom Resources | Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Avoiding Sexist Language by Using Gender-Fair Pronouns
Students engage in a brief writing assignment that concretely illustrates how language and gender stereotyping interact causally. - Classroom Resources | Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Become a Character: Adjectives, Character Traits, and Perspective
Students "become" one of the major characters in a book and describe themselves and other characters, using lists of accurate, powerful adjectives. - Classroom Resources | Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Brave New Words: Novice Lexicography and the Oxford English Dictionary
Students become novice lexicographers as they explore recent new entries to the dictionary, learn the process of writing entries for the Oxford English Dictionary, and write a new entry themselves. - Classroom Resources | Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan
Choose, Select, Opt, or Settle: Exploring Word Choice in Poetry
Students investigate the effects of word choice in Robert Frost's "Choose Something Like a Star" to construct a more sophisticated understanding of speaker, subject, and tone. - Classroom Resources | Grades 5 – 12 | Printout | Informational Sheet
Common Content Area Roots and Affixes
This printout offers 50 or so common roots, prefixes, and affixes that give students access to hundreds of key concepts across the content areas. - Classroom Resources | Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
Crossword Puzzles
This tool allows students to complete crossword puzzles on a variety of grade-appropriate topics, and also create and print their own crossword puzzles. - Classroom Resources | Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Writing Poetry
Diamante Poems
This online tool enables students to learn about and write diamante poems. - Classroom Resources | Grades K – 12 | Mobile App | Writing Poetry
Diamante Poems
In this app, users can learn about and write diamante poems, which are diamond-shaped poems that use nouns, adjectives, and gerunds to describe either one central topic or two opposing topics (for example, night/day or winter/spring). Examples of both kinds of diamante poems can be viewed online or printed out. - Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 12 | Calendar Activity |  October 16
Dictionary author Noah Webster was born in 1758.
Students play a variation of the game Balderdash to practice vocabulary.